North Terrace

GSA North Terrace is to be an exemplar project for Adelaide, with a focus on new types of living in a collegiate environment, and a focus on the life and learning of students.

Efficient Structural Exoskeleton

North Terrace creates a new type of Urban College, furthering the nature of what constitutes a civic building and how Student Accommodation can contribute positively to the City.

Being located on North Terrace requires a building that would sit amongst the wide variety of architectural styles, but most importantly, seek a civic scale and presence to allow it sitting comfortably in this important streetscape.
As a contemporary tower, we have been able to express visually the uses and activity within, and highlight the innovative nature of its use with the inclusion of significant communal living areas for students at different vantage points within the building. These act as a means to occupy all parts of the proposal and provides an innovative accommodation mix incorporating co-living principals.

Our concept seeks to place the building within its local surrounds through the creation of colonnade and highly active and dynamic ground plane, but also a responsive façade that manages the extremes of the South Australia climate.

The expressed structural exoskeleton creates efficiencies in the structural design of the tower whilst providing passive solar shading to the facade.

North Terrace creates a new type of Urban College, furthering the nature of what constitutes a civic building and how Student Accommodation can contribute positively to the City.

Being located on North Terrace requires a building that would sit amongst the wide variety of architectural styles, but most importantly, seek a civic scale and presence to allow it sitting comfortably in this important streetscape.
As a contemporary tower, we have been able to express visually the uses and activity within, and highlight the innovative nature of its use with the inclusion of significant communal living areas for students at different vantage points within the building. These act as a means to occupy all parts of the proposal and provides an innovative accommodation mix incorporating co-living principals.

Our concept seeks to place the building within its local surrounds through the creation of colonnade and highly active and dynamic ground plane, but also a responsive façade that manages the extremes of the South Australia climate.

The expressed structural exoskeleton creates efficiencies in the structural design of the tower whilst providing passive solar shading to the facade.

Co-Living, Co-Working Principals

North Terrace is designed to blur the lines between university and business in a cutting-edge off-campus project with a dedicated in-house co-working ‘incubator hub’ that references European internet cafes.

Co-located with a café space, the hub enables sophisticated collaboration between students and business leaders by providing dedicated spaces where students can hone their commercial skills while enjoying the experience of living and working with their peers and forming a career.

With tertiary studies increasingly focused on problem-solving, the interaction between students has become an important part of the college experience.

Curated and inspirational architectural spaces with well-planned common areas, such as those provided at North Terrace, embrace and encourage this style of ‘incidental’ learning.

North Terrace is designed to blur the lines between university and business in a cutting-edge off-campus project with a dedicated in-house co-working ‘incubator hub’ that references European internet cafes.

Co-located with a café space, the hub enables sophisticated collaboration between students and business leaders by providing dedicated spaces where students can hone their commercial skills while enjoying the experience of living and working with their peers and forming a career.

With tertiary studies increasingly focused on problem-solving, the interaction between students has become an important part of the college experience.

Curated and inspirational architectural spaces with well-planned common areas, such as those provided at North Terrace, embrace and encourage this style of ‘incidental’ learning.

Victoriana

18 Storey; 41126sqm GFA

Sculptural in its form, the architecture responds to its natural landscape. Cascading terraces soften a grand double frontage, creating a vertical garden that seems to flow into the park and the lake below.

Toorak Road

Toorak Road’s façade opens and closes to create an organic architecture that oscillates between private and public landscaped spaces, whilst firmly anchoring down to the ground plane with a curvaceous gesture which frames the entry and holds the street.